Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Do you ever realize that you seem to get not many comments for your posts most of the time? What are the reasons people are not commenting? Is it because of plain laziness to blog hop and make a comment or is it because there are no benefits at all for the blog hoppers to gain?

After weeks for researching and commenting in foreign blogs, I came across some interesting findings which I think it will be a waste if I do not share them with my readers. Everyone deserved the right to improve their page rank as well as getting better traffics and backlinks for their sites. Try checking out Dave Lucas's site on increasing blog traffics. Some of you might not even know how to do this without proper guidance. Since I am a Blogger user, I am going to share with you the findings.

Most of the time, you will just use the pre-designed templates provided by Blogger. That is the easiest way out as not many people have the knowledge and experience to come out with a good design. On top of that, there is the HTML language barrier. What you do not know is that all the templates come with a “nofollow attribute”. This is to discourage comment spam. By doing this, you are stopping the search spiders to follow the link and thus stopping the sharing of your “Google Juice” with your fellow bloggers.

What can you do to attract your readers to comment? You share your link juice with them, once they comment in your post. What is the EXTRA BENEFIT that you can give to your readers as a token of appreciation? You give them backlinks. Here are the simple 3 steps that may help you:

Firstly, to discourage comment spam, you need to set the comment moderation in your Blogger account. After logging in your Dashboard, go to CUSTOMIZE, SETTINGS, COMMENT, ENABLE COMMENT MODERATION, YES. Save your template after you are done.

Secondly, you have to do some minor alteration to your HTML in Blogger. Before doing that, save a backup by clicking on DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE. Then, go to CUSTOMIZE, EDIT HTML, tick the EXPAND WIDGET TEMPLATES, search for the following codes:

Lastly, CHOOSE a nice COLOUR WIDGET which is suitable for your blog template from Randy Clay Design to be added prominently to your side bar. This is to ensure that whoever sees this logo will be aware that they will gain an additional backlink from you by commenting. Do encourage your fellow bloggers to do this as this is a WIN-WIN situation for both parties.

For those who are using Wordpress, you can visit this site to gather more information. As for Moveable Type users, try this site.

15 comments:

It's quite simple... I don't comment when I don't feel I have something to say. Sometimes it depends on the mood too... if I'm feeling "interactive" or passive... there are days I comment like mad and then i can go weeks without leaving even one! Sorry for not commenting more often ler... *huggles*

Sometime we have no idea what to comments and what to write ... See look see look and get some idea ...to post a comments :) Not only post need some inspiration and idea, even comments need idea also to have it's own "origin" mah ... true ar ?? u thot me this too... MUST ORIGIN either a post or comments.. :) But for our readers to leave comments to our blog is actually important and it's give us GVOORMMMS to write on.. Btw... so long very drop by here .sory yerrr ... *_*

I just read that when you DO a no follow on technorati buttons, feedburner link, it can help to increase your PR. It was explained how, but I'm just not tech savvy enough to follow what it means. Heheh.

Anyways, I do try to comment on every page I go to. It's easier when the topics bloggers post are relative and interesting to you. :)

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